I see religion as a storehouse of lots of really good ideas that a secular world should look at, raid, and learn from.

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.

The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.

Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.

The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well.

Come to think of it, she did not speak a word. Yet I could have sworn she had the most beautiful voice.

Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.

Famine and unemployment are the raw material for dictatorships.

No more running away from something or someone or myself.

We are powerful magical beings.

Love is the part of us that is real.

Always remember honey. A good motto is: Take all you can get and give as little as possible.

When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.

The free economy is not the enemy but the friend of social capital.

I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free.